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Mr Grant, Finance Department
Mr Grainger, Legal Advisers
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1. Further to my minute of 7 August on this subject, I attach a - copy of a telegram from Hong Kong (No.1586 of 6 August) suggesting,
in their para. (D), that they should effectively pay for BN (0)
the fee revenue.
passports and keep
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2. I should be grateful for your views on this suggestion, which you will remember was regarded as a possibility by Mr Escritt of your Department in his minute of 10 July, but with the observation that such appropriated-in-aid' monies must from 1 April 1986 be surrendered to the Consolidated Fund. I should be grateful if the Legal Advisers could give their opinion on this also.
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HD Marcelin
NTD
CL 511 213-4005
9 August 1985
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who have agreed orally
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